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Sweden Sees Spike in Sexual Assault Cases Over the Last Five Years

<p>The number of <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;conservativewoman&period;com&sol;2018&sol;09&sol;26&sol;minnesota-legislator-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-his-daughter&sol;">sexual assaults<&sol;a> in Sweden is at record levels&comma; according to the Criminal statistics agency Brå&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Over six percent of women in the country have been victims of sex crimes in the past year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This percentage has been climbing since 2013&period; In 2016&comma; 4&period;7 percent of women said they were victims of sexual assault and then in 2017 this spiked to 6&period;4 percent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Between 2006 and 2012&comma; the level was relatively stable&comma; but since 2013&comma; the proportion that claims to be exposed to sexual offenses has shown a clear increase&comma;&&num;8221&semi; according to the Brå agency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cases of rape specifically have increased by 10 percent this year compared to 2016 where over 7&comma;000 cases were reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The number of reported rapes and sexual offenses have increased by 10 percent and 8 percent &lpar;reaching 7&comma;230 rape cases and 21&comma;500 sexual offenses in 2017 respectively&rpar;&period; Over the past decade&comma; the number of reported sex-related attacks has increased by 34 percent&period; Only 11 percent of rape cases are solved&comma; and even fewer result in criminal convictions&comma;&&num;8221&semi; writes <em>Sputnik International&period; <&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is important to keep in mind that sexual offense is a crime category that encompasses a wide range of crimes&period; Everything from events such as violent sexual comments&comma; to very serious crimes&comma; such as rape&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Maria Söderström&comma; an investigator at Brå&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Public broadcaster<em> SVT<&sol;em> said that 58 percent of men convicted of rape and attempted rape over the past year have been foreigners&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;When it came to rapes where the victim did not know their attacker&comma; the number of foreign convicts was as high as 85 percent of all cases&comma; with half of the migrants being in the country for less than a year before the attack&comma;&&num;8221&semi; writes <em>Breitbart&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But according to a recent study by the Swedish thesis project at Gothenburg University&comma; over 50 percent of Swedes surveyed blame the victims of the sexual assault&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;In the survey spanning 3&comma;800 people&comma; the respondents were faced with a set of fictional rape situations&comma; including a party rape amid alcohol consumption&comma; and a home rape after the victim invited three male colleagues to her place after a dinner out&comma;&&num;8221&semi; writes <em>Sputnik International&period; <&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Surprisingly&comma; the victims were blamed more than given sympathy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Author&&num;8217&semi;s note<&sol;strong>&colon; It&&num;8217&semi;s no coincidence that these crimes have spiked following the migrant crisis&period; Europe&&num;8217&semi;s immigration policy is destroying these small countries&period; The liberal media is blasting the<em> SVT<&sol;em> for its report about the percentage of sexual assults committed by migrants&period; Not to mention&comma; instead of placing blame on the migrant criminals&comma; the victims are being blamed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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